Alright, 2010, you pretty much sucked big-time in my book. So just get the hell on out of here. And 2011, if you ain't gonna be a whole lot better, I'm gonna kick your worthless ass out the door too.

    With gratitude to the late, great Brother Iz, to all my LJ buddies, and especially my sister in Mexico.

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     I don't know why, at 2:00 am in the dead cold of an Alabama winter, I am sitting here thinking of Aunt Agnes and her '53 green Ford pick-up truck and our warm spring and summer evening trips to Winston County to buy moonshine when I was around twelve or thirteen years old. When Alabama seceded from the Union before the Civil War, Winston ( Read more... )

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Am feeling not quite up to snuff so thought I would post this for anyone feeling the same.

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Most of my area was treated today to something I can't remember seeing in my time in Alabama--a White Christmas. I got this pic from the Al.com website. The snow wasn't quite as heavy at my brother's but was still beautiful and enough to cover cars and trees and decks and yards. Plus, my sister called me from Mexico so it was an all-round wonderful ( Read more... )

It's not Christmas, but I think it's fabulous!!!

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     When life wants to get you down and out
     Just lift up your voice and shout
     Awww SH*T !!!!!!!!

     The thing I hate most about depression is not its weight, nor its echoing silence, but that it blinds and binds the soul in a torment neither curse nor prayer relieves.

So you know what I am going to do? F*ck my depression and drink some coffee and get on with my day. So there. Three positives, I am comin' for ya.